Platelets

The bone marrow is where platelets, red blood cells, and white blood cells are all bred and where they mature. Aajonus described the bone marrow as being approximately 60% fat, comparable in fat concentration to the brain and the nervous system. Because of this fat density, the body preferentially routes poisons into the bone marrow when other fat-rich storage sites such as the brain and nervous system are already saturated with accumulated toxins. This poisoning of the bone marrow directly impairs the division and maturation of all cells bred there, including platelets.

He described the bone marrow environment using the physical analogy of butter: at normal body temperature it is soft and creamy, like warm butter or yogurt, and if the body reaches 101 or 102 degrees it melts entirely. The soft, fatty quality of the marrow is what makes it simultaneously an ideal breeding ground for blood cells and a preferred dumping site for heavy metals, industrial chemicals, and other fat-soluble poisons the body cannot otherwise neutralize.

When the marrow becomes toxic, the immature cells it produces, including platelets, are thrown into the bloodstream before they are ready. Aajonus described this as the body being forced to eject immature cells because the marrow needs to make room. He said: "The body gets so confused with all the toxicity now going into the bone marrow because the brain's full... So the body starts shoving poisons into the bone marrow. It's got to throw some of the immature cells out. So it throws them in the bloodstream."

Aajonus was specific that platelets and other blood cells are born small and grow. When he observed bone marrow blood under a microscope, he pointed out that the young cells visible there are smaller versions of what they will become: "When they divide, they are smaller for some reason and then they grow up and become larger. Most people think when there's a division, they're their normal big size, but they're usually half the size."

He described seeing the full life cycle visible in the marrow microscopy images: small young cells dividing in their holes in the marrow tissue, surrounded by the fatty structure of the bone, with the cells destined to migrate into the bloodstream once they reach maturity. The normal process is for red and white blood cells, and by extension platelets, to remain in the bone marrow until they are mature before entering the bloodstream and taking up their functional roles.

When the bone marrow is compromised by toxicity, immature platelets and blood cells are expelled prematurely and circulate in the blood without being able to perform their work. Aajonus described an immature red blood cell in the bloodstream as something that "is a leech, it eats what's in the bloodstream but does not provide the transport of oxygen or the transport of carbon dioxide, so it's just not mature, it's not working."

When showing blood slides during workshops, Aajonus identified platelets visually as the smallest particles among the major components visible in the blood. He described a slide image with "red blood cell disks there, the blood platelets, all other kinds of nutrients in there," and in another description contrasted the size of platelets against the larger red and white blood cells, with platelets appearing as "small little platelets" relative to the more prominent disk-shaped red cells and the rounded white cells and fatty phagocyte cells visible alongside them.

He also showed marrow blood specifically to demonstrate the difference between young and mature cells, pointing out that in the marrow, cells are visibly smaller because they are still developing. The marrow images he described showed "these little holes in it" as the structural framework of the marrow tissue, with the dividing cells visible within that architecture.

In one slide description, Aajonus pointed to a blood sample and said the person it came from was "very fat deficient" based on what was visible, noting that there were very few white blood cells, only four visible and some very tiny ones, and that those tiny ones "shouldn't be even out of the bone marrow at that point because they're not even mature." The fat deficiency he described was connected to the inability to produce and sustain healthy, mature blood components. The bone marrow, being 60% fat, requires adequate fat in the diet and in the body to function properly as a breeding ground for platelets and other blood cells. When fat is insufficient in the body overall, the marrow suffers proportionally.

He connected bone marrow fat specifically to the body's ability to generate and store poisons without immediately damaging the marrow's productive capacity. In a fat-deficient person, the bone marrow and brain are the only fat-concentrated areas available for poison storage, which means those areas become highly toxic relatively quickly and the resulting damage to blood cell and platelet production is severe.

Aajonus described the normal lifecycle of platelets after they complete their time in the bloodstream. He said: "The body will throw platelets into the blood after they've been bred in the bone marrow when they're about this small. And then they'll grow to this large a size. But when these die... the normal process is the body doesn't like to have a lot of waste." This observation was made in the context of the lymphatic system's role in dissolving dead cells, including dead platelets, and recycling their components. The lymph system, which he described as approximately 80% fat, 15% protein, and 5% carbohydrate, is designed to take dead cellular material and dissolve it into fluid for reuse or elimination. Dead platelets, like dead red and white blood cells, are supposed to be processed through this system.

In his book "We Want to Live," Aajonus addressed hemophilia directly in terms of platelets. He described hemophilia as "an inability to properly coagulate blood, characterized by bleeding easily and difficulty in stopping a bleed," caused either by heredity or by medications. His protocol for restoring platelet health in hemophiliacs was a high raw meat diet, "preferably a combination of fish with another raw meat of choice." He stated that "eating a high raw meat diet, preferably a combination of fish with another raw meat of choice, restores health to platelets, and strengthens tissues."

He added that hemophiliacs "do not digest, assimilate, or utilize cooked fat properly," and noted the thyroid as sometimes being at fault in these cases. He recommended "eating plenty of unheated honey and pineapple with raw fat and with raw meat" as supporting the healing process. The premise of this recommendation follows directly from his overall framework: properly coagulating blood depends on the health of the platelets, which depends on the health of the bone marrow, which depends on adequate raw fat and properly digested raw animal protein.

Aajonus consistently presented platelets as one component in a larger blood environment that is far more complex and populated than conventional medicine acknowledges. He described a healthy bloodstream as containing not just platelets, red cells, and white cells, but also phagocytes, bacteria, enzymes, vitamins, and other particles. He showed slides of what he described as healthy native blood to illustrate that a living, functioning blood environment includes bacteria and so-called parasites as natural inhabitants, not contaminants.

The spleen holds reserves of red blood cells for emergency use but does not store or manufacture platelets specifically. Platelets, in the framework, are dependent on bone marrow health, which is dependent on the fat content and toxin load of the marrow, which is governed by the overall dietary and toxic history of the individual. Poor bone marrow health from heavy metal accumulation, industrial chemicals, pharmaceutical residues, or inadequate dietary fat will compromise platelet production, maturation, and function, contributing to conditions such as easy bruising, poor clotting, anemia, and systemic weakness.